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The pending introduction of the Australian Tax Office’s (ATO's) Single Touch Payroll Reporting (STPR) requirements from July 2018 will create significant changes for how businesses across the country report to and engage with regulators. Read more.

The pending introduction of the Australian Tax Office’s (ATO's) Single Touch Payroll Reporting (STPR) requirements from July 2018 will create significant changes for how businesses across the country report to and engage with regulators. Read more.

The pending introduction of the Australian Tax Office’s (ATO's) Single Touch Payroll Reporting (STPR) requirements from July 2018 will create significant changes for how businesses across the country report to and engage with regulators. Read more.

The pending introduction of the Australian Tax Office’s (ATO's) Single Touch Payroll Reporting (STPR) requirements from July 2018 will create significant changes for how businesses across the country report to and engage with regulators. Read more.

Billion-dollar windfalls from government, lower electricity
prices forecast, increased spending from shoppers and
improving economic activity – Queensland small businesses
could be forgiven for thinking all, if not some, of their
Christmases are coming at once. Read more.

Small business owners across Queensland can sense economic
momentum building, but will need more than three months of
improving conditions before they are convinced the economy
has turned the corner and is back on track, according to
latest research. Read more.

The most recent retail trade data released by the Australian
Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has shown signs of continued
sales momentum in Queensland, with the official growth rate
rising by 0.4 points to 3.1 per cent in September. Read more.

The recent decision awarding a former State Government
employee more than $1 million confirms that employers must
provide adequate bullying and harassment training to their
management staff. Read more.

One reason that people go into small business is to build
themselves an empire. Once you get bitten by the small
business bug it can be contagious and the world is your
oyster it seems. Oh, but the number of times I have seen
people jump at opportunities to grow but ultimately end up
costing them everything they own. They risked it all and
lost. Read more.

One of my first jobs was in the deli section in a
supermarket. I still remember how excited I was to walk in
on that first day to be handed a little paper hat that would
eventually become the source of many jokes from my mates for
years to come. My first few days were typical for many
entering a new business; classroom ‘training’, forms to
fill out and a middle aged woman telling me how lucky I was
to be a part of the company. Read more.

As a professional speaker, I have been taught that there are
two critical parts to a speech. These are the beginning and
the end. Any audience will usually remember best what comes
first in a speech and what comes last in a speech. For this
reason, all speakers know to plan these two parts of the
presentation very carefully. Read more.